She is clearly very successful and I really do admire her drive at such a young age.

However I did one of her courses and wasn't

that impressed with it at all and decided

that she was great at marketing herpersonal brand but maybe there was not so much substance under

the gloss (until Hubs said "maybe

you decided you would consciously not like the course so that you could prove your theory that she's

all gloss and nothing else")

The pen gifted to Dita Von Teese by Mont Blanc

How DARE he.

BUT was he right?(he knows me better thananyone ;-)

HOWEVER (now this is the scary bit)

I am still addicted

to seeing her photos, what she's bought

(Hermés is usually featured in her photo-shoots or in a

days shopping),

what she's wearing, where's she holidaying etc.

Now this is SO unlike me it is frightening ME!

As I look at her Facebook feed

I am starting to notice a "flaunting"about

lots of the photos she does now , and yet I can't resist following(but on the other hand she couldbe showing her younger target marketwhat they can have if they work hard.There is that side to it too).

She seems to be idolised by many

younger business women who

follow her (as I guess that

is her target market)

I do feel (having followed her for

2+ years) that the visual side of her posts

are becoming more ego-driven than previously

(no-one surely can post that many

personal pictures on a FB business

page without it being.......can they?)

How gorgeous is this work space?

However, the bigger question is why

don't I just click away and be done

with it?

But no! I then start comparing

how I was at her age. I didn't really know

where I was going or who I was and I

certainly wasn't buying Hermés or

Chanel in my 20's.

I then start comparing the 40-something me with this person (even more dangerous) and start to

despair that I left it too

late to acquire all my dreamsso I might as well

give up now and crawlback under the duvet.Those of you who have followedme for some time know this is SO not me.I am so driven and optimistic aboutwhatever life throws at me.So what's happening?

Oct 17, 2013

If you are a new follower, you maywish to read here how I've been touched bybreast cancer, and why I controversiallybelieve we will NEVER make progress withbreast cancer research.

In the 20+ years since I lost myMum, there hasn't really been any progressin research. I have my reasons for thisvery clear having worked forthe Medical Research Council (London) for many years.

Pink Louboutins anyone?

Raspberry reading room

Basically the food industry and

pharma industry are controlling

what research gets done-in a nutshell.

I saw it with my own eyes and was flabbergasted

and SO very angry

Pink Dior

I was later told by a scientist (whilst having drinks)"Cancer is a huge money-making business Van.Why do you think after all the billions we have pouredinto research we are still no further along?If cancer research was a business with shareholders,and it was producing the level (or lack of) results produced after having billions poured into it for decades, it would have beenshut down long ago."

And then the penny dropped.From that day forward I stopped contributingto cancer research charities (which I was a hugeadvocate of before).

How gorgeous are these charm gloves?

Twenty years on and we are still fighting thedisease in the same way; your options are to cutburn or poison

Most Oncologists will admitthey would NOT choose the chemo-therapy route for a member of theirown family, no matterhow bad the cancer was!

Is that progress?

La Hurley

We know that so much cancer is caused by thefood we eat (don't even get me started on cow'smilk and beef products ;-)

But the food industry is huge and our governmentsget enormous revenue from the food and pharmaceutical industry (which work hand in hand)

We are all living with false hope, when the answer is mucheasier-change what you put into your body.

Just pop over to You Tube and watch the fabulousfilm The Beautiful Truth about The Gerson Therapy,told from a young boys perspective(the film your doctor doesn't wantyou to know about).

Or read any of the fabulous books onGerson Therapy,and convince me cancer is not relatedto food (something Governments have known for decades but felt the averageperson wasn't intelligent enough to process the facts).

This is a subject very close to my heart,so sorry if I have come across "preachy".I just get so angry by how we are all beingduped.Ironically I am posting thispost on the exact day my Mumdied (17 October) at aged only 48.Totally unintentional, butI dedicate it to myMummy nonetheless:-)

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